Homeowners are falling victim to title theft, where scammers are selling your home right out from under you. Maricopa County is rolling out a new alert system for the fraud on the rise.
This week, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office announced a new, free service called Maricopa Title Alert. It works like Google Alerts, and monitors document recordings of names entered into the system. For example, when the name of a person or business has been removed and replaced on a property title.It’s an effort to fight title fraud, and one county resident said she